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Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate 1

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If you have, like me, been participating in the beta tests of the 2007 edition of Microsoft's Virtual PC, you should check out the Microsoft Connect site. They've released release candidate 1 (build 6.0.142) and it runs very smoothly under Vista on my HP laptop. Since I've been bet...

January 8, 2007

WPF Everywhere

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Codename WPF/E or Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere in full, refers to the technology that allows lightweight XAML based applications to run within Internet Explorer, Firefox, or even Mac's Safari. To see what I'm talking about, download the CTP from here, and then check out the sam...

December 4, 2006

Uninstallation aid

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I recently posted about a problem I had while upgrading from Office 2007 Beta 2 to the final version. Somehow, the unstallation of beta 2 still left some pieces floating around on my harddisk. I then used a manual workaround, but in the mean time, I've also found a nice little tool that really sh...

December 3, 2006

Cool Windows XP Theme: Zune

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I ran into this while looking at the weblog of Alex Thissen. Download this from here.

December 1, 2006

Team Foundation Server roadmap

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I was quite surprised that nothing was announced on Team Foundation Server during this year's TechED. We've been using TFS since it its beta 3 stage, and we all know that it is a great product, but it still misses some important features. The biggest limitation from my perspective is the lack of ...

December 1, 2006

Anti-Patterns for Test Driven Development

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This is a nice and funny list of anti-patterns that you may recognize, and like me, may have used in the past. I particularly like The Inspector and Generous Leftovers. It seems to be quite difficutl to write a decent and reliable unit test without falling into the same trap again.

November 30, 2006